How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. – Maimonides
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go. – Lewis Thomas
When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way. – Ludwig van Beethoven
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. – Marilyn vos Savant
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. – James G. Frazer
The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle. – James Prescott Joule
They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions. – Joe Henderson
The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I’ve kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I’ve done it by living in the country within commuting distance. – Kenneth Noland
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy. – Jason Epstein
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. – Robert Southey
We’re going in really fresh. We’re going to have fresh legs and bodies, we’re going to be able to stay the distance, and that’s our goal. – Serena Williams
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. – Peter Morgan
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness. – Rachel Johnson
I’ve tried Oculus Rift; I’ve played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up. – Ramez Naam
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. – Samuel Johnson
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. – Richard Leakey
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it’s detachment. – Sam Snead
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. – Washington Irving
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything. – Taylor Swift
This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars… yet we have – to date – funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That’s quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do. – Solomon Ortiz
I’m like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. – Steven Saylor